Word: floated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There are buzzwords that float around political journalism, magazine articles and government classes. We pick them up for a few months, use them, talk about them, wait for William Safire to tell us where they came from, and move on. "Identity politics" is one of these phrases. But unlike political correctness, identity politics refuses to kick the bucket just...
...attendance figures always seem to float above the 2,000 mark, yet how can that one statistic explain the real faces who journey across the river to Bright...
...didn't come off looking very good" after making some "terrible mistakes." Scotvold says Kerrigan should have been home resting after the Olympics rather than coming off as bratty in public appearances she was too exhausted to make. He mentioned the infamous Disney parade in which Kerrigan shared a float with the famous rodent and accurately confided, "This is so corny...
...past two months recovering from a stress fracture of her left toe, showed no sign of faltering. Seven of nine judges deemed her presentation perfection, awarding the first 6.0s ever at the Nationals in the ladies' short program. And then, transported by Lyra Angelica, she seemed to float through every jump of her long program on Saturday night, even the triple toe loop that placed painful pressure on her toe. "I was like, I'm free and I'm gone," she said. "Cloud nine, here I come." The judges seemed giddy too, giving her eight 6.0s. She claimed...
...avoid a verbal disagreement with Antony when he orders her to kill him, kills herself instead. Feinstein's Antony is memorable and portrayed excellently, but the helplessness of his character makes one view his emotional tirades like those of a child. Everyone, save Cleopatra and Caesar, seems to float alone through the story, which is why the Victorian setting works perfectly. The sterility and repressed nature of the Victorian era bridges the characters; this stiff society would not have acknowledged such gaps in personal relationships...